You have all week to make sure they are up for it
Totally agree Flanno. My football career, er no, it certainly wasn't a career, more like what I did to fill in time Saturday arvos, ended about 1957 with Caringbah D grade. I'd been tackled and my head hit something hard in the ground at Woolooware Oval. As I sat there waiting for the stars to go out and the ground to stop tilting I noticed some slick bodgie type chatting up my girl and decided that was enough for me.
I was half OK but pretty skinny, but unless you attended one of the colleges you had limited opportunities at the club. Plus I thought that either cricket or tennis was my go.
Anyway, I digress. What I wanted to say was that our coaching consisted of a jog around the oval and some passing practice before the game, so I can't even imaging what it must be like to be part of a coaching system that most NRL clubs have in place.
It seems like they have a coach for every imaginable activity including speech and life activity coaches.
Now I haven't been around the NRL club scene for a bloody long time, but with attack coaches, defence coaches, and who knows whatever coaches, I have probably been mistakenly thinking that the head coach's main job would be to make sure his players heads are definitely in the right space,
before they run onto the ground, and not wait to see how they are travelling for the first twenty minutes or so, when they have possibly already been blown off the park.
Even though I didn't agree with the Bomber dismissal, at least the instigator seems to be passionate about the club succeeding, something that our stand-in coach seems to lack, as does our current Captain.
Just my two bobs worth !